The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

De removed to county asylums. and appropriat-
ing IS per week for each patient so kept; to de-
clare that Freemasons: Odd-Fellows Knights
ofPythias and similar organizations are not in
surance companies within the meaning of the
general law; to suppress houses of illfame; to
appropriate $4,000 to erect new buildings at the
school for dependent children at Sparta; TO
apply the provision of the Registration law of
1885 to municipal and judicial elections in cities
OF $1,000 and over. The following appropria-
tons were passed for the next two years; State
Hospital S115,000; Northern Hospital S131. 900:
School for Deaf, $4,000; School for Blind, s45,-
600; Industrial School, $4,000; State Prison,
$4,000.
ACCOMMODATIONS from LOO citizens of
the State were received praying for the prohi-
bition OF contract convict labor Bills were
killed requiring railway companies to heat
passenger cars by steam; requiring Milwaukee
policemen to give heavy bonds, from which
judgments from false arrests can be taken; re.
quiring all candidates for election as circuit
judges to first pass an examination before the
Supreme Court, and for weekly payments of
wages to employees by corporations; prohibiting
legislators and members of courts of record
from accepting railway passes. A bill was
passed to apply the registration law of 1885 to
municipal and judicial elections in cities of
$1,000 and over.
from Governor Rusk on the I'd recommending
that no provision for an additional State prison
be made. The following joint committee to
investigate the expenditures in the construc-
ton of Science Hall and other university build
ings was announced: Senators Cooper, Dyson
and Kennedy, and Assemblymen Knapp, Nc
Elroy, McCourt, Lathrop and Spiering.
AssEMBLY-The Senate bill providing that
when county seat has f1een located in a place
fifteen years, and buildings of $4,000 value have
been erected, no vote to change the same be al
lowed unless one-half of the freeholderS of the
county petition for such vote was concurred in; ;
also the bill appropriating $4,000 to inclose and
put roof on Sclence Hall. A good many petit
tions favoring the adjustment of prison con-
tract labor were presented.
SENATE-Bills were concurred in on the Sd to
increase the fees of county surveyors from So to
S. per day; to provide that any architect who
prepares plans for factories and public build
ings and fails to design outward swinging doors
and fre-escapes shall be punished by a fine
not to exceed 800; providing that keepers of
houses of ill-fame be fined $500 to $1,000 or i'm
prisoned from one to three years, The bill ap-
piled also to persons whose buildings are used
for such purpose. Bills were killed prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors at agricultural
fairs; to prohibit the leasing of convict labor,
and to abolish farmers Institutes. The joint
resolution declaring that the Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court who has been
longest in continuous service shall be Chief
Justice ex-oficio of that court was adopted.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed providing for
the punishment of persons who practice dentis-
try in the State without registering annually
and securing license by fine not to exceed
500; to require mortgagers of stocks of goods
to file inventory of additions and sales every
DAVIS. tn m0f In o 10
erty of the Milwaukee Exposition Association;
to create superior court in Milwaukee Coun-
ty; to permit railway companies to run their
trains over railroad crossings without the
usual four hundred feet stop when the company
uses proper precautions; to raise the age of
consent to eighteen. There was warm
debate over the bill reducing the one mill
school-tax levy from one mill to ono-half mill,
and the measure was finally indefinitely post
poned.
SENATE-A bill was passed on the 4th making
the taking of cranberries a larceny and joint
resolution accepting an investigation to join
Ohio in the celebration of the settlement of the
Northwestern Territory at Marietta, o., in
1888, was adopted. Adjourned to the evening
of the 18th.
ASSEMBLY-The Committee ON Labor and
Manufactures made an adverse report on the
bill prohibiting the contracting of convict
labor and reported a substitute authorizing the
State Board of Supervision to employ convicts
in manufacturing goods on account of the
State, and appropriating 100000 to carry out
the provisions of the bill. Bills passed: Re-
quiring short-line telegraph companies to pay
State license of one per cent. on their gross
receipts instead of 81 per mile of wire; exempt
ing honorably discharged eX-Union soldiers
from the payment of peddlers' license, and pro-
viding an assistant district attorney for Mil
waul1ee County at salary of 81 800. A joint re-
solution was concurred in accepting the in.
vitatlon of the State of Ohio to participate in
the celebration to be held at Marietta,
in 1885, to commemorate the one hundredth an
niversary of the settlement of the Northwest
Territory, embracing the States of Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Adjourned to the evening of the nth.
SENATE-Bills were passed on the 18th per.
hitting the issuance OF licenses by town boards
to pharmacists to sell liquor for medicinal pur-
poses and not to be drank on the premises; to
prohibit any person or corporation from insur-
ing property for more than four-fifths
of its cash value permitting persons
sentenced to imprisonment in the county
jail to be sentenced also to hard labor;
providing for the appointment of an inspector
of freight and passenger elevators in Milwau
kee Furnishing keepers of billiard parlors for
allowing minors to play; requiring county SUI
perintendents to reside at the county seat and
keep office there. Assembly bills were passed
permitting farmers institutes to be held at any
time in the discretion Of the Board of Univer-
sity Regents; permitting complaints for viola
ton of the Compulsory Educational law to be
made direct to the courts; making frst-grade
teachers certificates good for four years, sec
ond grade for two years and third grade for one
year.
AssEMBLY-Bills were passed to provide for
the punishment of any person who shall sell
real estate on which there is mortgage with
out first giving notice of such mortgage to the
purchaser by fine not exceeding $500 or by
imprisonment not exceeding six months to
authorize the sale of a right OF way to the Wis
consin Central railway through the grounds of
the Industrial School for Boys at Waukesha. A
to Congress for granting women the